[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 61 (Friday, March 28, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16680-16681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6288]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding 
Companies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for 
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other 
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company 
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the 
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the 
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, 
including the companies listed below.
    The applications listed below, as well as other related filings 
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the 
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available 
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested 
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated 
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the 
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether 
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards 
in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, 
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained

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from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than April 23, 2008.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, 
Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Hazen Bancorporation, Inc., Hazen, North Dakota; to increase its 
ownership to 19.20 percent of the voting shares of North Star Holding 
Company, Inc., Jamestown, North Dakota, and thereby indirectly acquire 
Unison Bank, Jamestown, North Dakota and Unison Bank, Mesa, Arizona (a 
de novo bank).
    2. McIntosh County Bank Holding Company, Inc., Ashley, North 
Dakota; to acquire additional shares and maintain 33.33 percent of the 
voting shares of North Star Holding Company, Inc., Jamestown, North 
Dakota, and thereby indirectly acquire Unison Bank, Jamestown, North 
Dakota and Unison Bank, Mesa, Arizona.
    3. North Star Holding Company, Inc., Jamestown, North Dakota; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Unison Bank, Mesa, Arizona 
(a de novo bank).
    4. Wishek Bancorporation, Inc., Wishek, North Dakota; to acquire, 
through its ownership of North Star Holding Company, Inc., Jamestown, 
North Dakota, shares of Unison Bank, Mesa, Arizona ( a de nova bank).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 24, 
2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E8-6288 Filed 3-27-08; 8:45 am]
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